Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 13:17:46 EST Reply-To: Eric Roskos Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Eric Roskos Subject: Re: Radio RSA special broadcast on Nelson Mandela X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb12.140704est.58548@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu ralph@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi) writes: >It was interesting to hear how the TV reporters seemed >to harp on the connection between the ANC and the South African >Communist Party. It's equally interesting to see how often that is not mentioned in news reports originating in the US; the ties between the ANC and SACP are apparently very deep, and it is only recently that the SACP has decided to take a lower profile and "wait out" the changes they are seeking, according to news reports. A similar situation existed with Mrs. Mandela; long before the incidents of violence reported in the national media that caused the ANC to distance themselves from her, she had made a speech that said "with our necklaces ... we will liberate South Africa." This was reported on some of the other non-US radio stations, but not generally in the US media, where this advocacy of violence contrasted with the image usually presented of her. [There is another phrase ("and our ???") that goes where the ellipses are, but I don't remember what it was.] -- Eric Roskos (roskos@IDA.ORG or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL) "Some countries maintain `fast time' throughout the year, in which case it becomes `standard time'." -- DMA World Map 1150 (USGS)